Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

but also made a bit

SSSH!

left Alex's left arm again, and

Alex's arm

temperature that would

left Alex's left arm wasn't as cold as in

the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm

I need to

right

little bit. Just a tiny, little

SSSSSHH!

of the arm. However, since he had only used a little bit,

some icicles had formed on

icicles off his face and

used a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single

as a reference

I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would

chin as a complicated expression appeared on his

some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and my opponent would get a

Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such

However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have some issues

weather. I could run around with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash

I can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed

Alex scratched his chin.

in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me

and he finally came close to his

a tree and saw an

many gigantic needles poked out of the unmoving

the octopus,

one of the tentacles and saw how it

thicker tentacles of the octopus, and just its width was

Alex stood before the fleshy

was probably fifty meters

the tentacle and walked

to the spot where the hedgehog was currently munching away and

hedgehog continued eating, but after some

its head to Alex and sniffed

a bit

After all, it was currently munching on

smelled similar

He hoped not!

a bit of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its head back and looked

it looked at the

at

hedgehog walked to the tentacle where Alex

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

hedgehog

BANG!

tentacle a couple of meters into the distance with a